Share the QR code < / P > < p > with wechat scanning code to friends and circle of friends < / P > < p > according to the news on January 6 on Jidu's official microblog, the first mass production model launched in 2023 will be equipped with NVIDIA drive Orin system level chip. The concept car will be officially unveiled at the Beijing auto show in April this year < p > < / P > < p > extended reading: < / P > < p > < / P > < p > Baidu responds to rumors of automatic driving layoffs: there are many rumors, and such news has not been heard internally < / P > < p > source: & nbsp; Economic Observer & nbsp < p > < / P > < p > Economic Observer reporter Zhou Ju & nbsp; "There are many rumors now. I haven't heard such news yet." On December 10, relevant persons from Baidu public relations department made the above response to the rumors of large-scale layoffs in Baidu's automatic driving department in an interview with the reporter of economic observer.com < p > since December, the news of layoffs in major Internet companies has spread one after another, including Baidu's automatic driving department. It is reported that Baidu's driverless Department has large-scale layoffs, the proportion is unknown, because no car factory is willing to mass produce < p > at present, auto driving is a popular industry, and the battle for talents has continued. In this case, the news of large-scale layoffs from Baidu's driverless department is somewhat unexpected. However, the above Baidu insiders denied the accuracy of the news

Baidu autopilot unit was founded in December 2015. At that time, it proposed to plan to commercialization of self driving cars in three years and achieve mass production in five years. In March 2017, baidu established an intelligent driving business group, which is composed of automatic driving business department, intelligent vehicle business department and Internet of vehicles business. In 2019, baidu intelligent automobile division was incorporated into the automatic driving division < p > during the period, in April 2017, baidu released the "Apollo" system, which is a software platform for the automotive industry and the field of automatic driving. At that time, baidu invited many host plants to join the Apollo program, but so far, the system has not been installed on mass production vehicles, It is only tested on robotaxi (Baidu Apollo autonomous taxi) in some cities < p > in fact, since Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC Group, put forward the "soul theory" in the middle of this year that the automatic driving technology of automobile enterprises should be led by themselves, how to cooperate between autonomous driving technology providers and vehicle manufacturers has become a sensitive topic in the industry < p > compared with Apollo's slow commercialization, Baidu's car building plan has made rapid progress. In March this year, Geely and Baidu established a new joint venture, named Jidu automobile. Statistics show that the registered capital of Jidu automobile is 2 billion yuan, and the investors are the holding companies of Baidu and Geely. The proportion of capital contribution of both parties is 55:45, and the legal representative is Xia Yiping. Xia Yiping is a former co-founder and chief technology officer of moBay and now serves as the CEO of Jidu Automobile Co., Ltd < p > in April this year, Xia Yiping revealed that Jidu automobile plans to invest 50 billion yuan ($7.7 billion) to produce intelligent vehicles in the next five years. In terms of products, the first electric vehicle will be launched within three years, and a new model will be released every other year or a year and a half thereafter. It is reported that the first mass production concept car of Jidu automobile will be unveiled at the Beijing auto show in April next year. It will be scheduled before the end of next year and delivered before 2023 < p > since its establishment, Jidu automobile has accelerated "Recruitment", focusing on automatic driving, intelligent cockpit, etc. In April this year, Xia Yiping said that Jidu automobile plans to recruit 2500-3000 people in the next two to three years, including 400-500 software engineers. It is reported that by the end of September this year, the whole team of Jidu automobile had reached 600 people, and it is expected to reach about 1000 people by the end of this year < p > the first product of Jidu automobile is being developed and produced by Geely Automobile Based on the vast architecture. In late September this year, Xia Yiping's microblog showed that Jidu software team had launched simucar (simulated sample vehicle) test and started software technology development. In November this year, Jidu automobile set up a new company in Shanghai with us $310 million. From the perspective of business scope, it may enter the charging and replacement industry. Similarly, in November, Baidu and Geely were fined 500000 yuan each by the antitrust bureau for failing to declare according to law when setting up Jidu automobile